Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT.A) Competitors

Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT.A) and Suburban Propane Partners (NYSE:SPH) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Do analysts recommend HVT.A or SPH?

Suburban Propane Partners has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.39%. Given Suburban Propane Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Suburban Propane Partners is more favorable than Haverty Furniture Companies.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Haverty Furniture Companies	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Suburban Propane Partners	1 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has higher valuation and earnings, HVT.A or SPH?

Suburban Propane Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Haverty Furniture Companies. Haverty Furniture Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Suburban Propane Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Haverty Furniture Companies	$722.90M	0.40	$18.95M	$1.17	15.21
Suburban Propane Partners	$1.33B	0.96	$74.17M	$1.06	18.80

Does the media favor HVT.A or SPH?

In the previous week, Suburban Propane Partners had 4 more articles in the media than Haverty Furniture Companies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Suburban Propane Partners and 0 mentions for Haverty Furniture Companies. Suburban Propane Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Haverty Furniture Companies' score of 0.00 indicating that Suburban Propane Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Haverty Furniture Companies	Neutral
Suburban Propane Partners	Very Positive

Is HVT.A or SPH a better dividend stock?

Haverty Furniture Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Suburban Propane Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Haverty Furniture Companies pays out 102.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Suburban Propane Partners pays out 122.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Haverty Furniture Companies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in HVT.A or SPH?

0.8% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.9% of Suburban Propane Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Suburban Propane Partners shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor HVT.A or SPH?

Suburban Propane Partners received 246 more outperform votes than Haverty Furniture Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.38% of users gave Haverty Furniture Companies an outperform vote while only 57.22% of users gave Suburban Propane Partners an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Haverty Furniture Companies	Outperform Votes 63 62.38%	Underperform Votes 38 37.62%
Suburban Propane Partners	Outperform Votes 309 57.22%	Underperform Votes 231 42.78%

Which has more risk and volatility, HVT.A or SPH?

Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Suburban Propane Partners has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is HVT.A or SPH more profitable?

Suburban Propane Partners has a net margin of 5.18% compared to Haverty Furniture Companies' net margin of 0.00%. Suburban Propane Partners' return on equity of 11.81% beat Haverty Furniture Companies' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Haverty Furniture Companies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Suburban Propane Partners	5.18%	11.81%	2.98%

Summary

Suburban Propane Partners beats Haverty Furniture Companies on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.